Monday, May 28, 2018

Head Of The OPCW Believes Syria Did Not Declare Its Entire Chemical Arsenal

NBC News: Syria may not have declared entire chemical arsenal, OPCW says

"Many Western countries are worried that the Syrian government continues to possess some of the precursors of sarin."

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The head of the world's chemical weapons watchdog has questioned whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared his entire arsenal.

Ahmet Uzumcu, director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), highlighted that attacks involving chlorine barrel bombs and deadly nerve agent sarin have continued despite the landmark agreement that won the group a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013.

Syrian “authorities have to explain in a plausible, technically plausible manner why the samples collected by our experts did prove the existence of certain chemicals which were never declared,” Uzumcu said in an interview with NBC News. "So they should explain why those chemicals were present in such places."

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